A Bohmian approach to quantum fractals

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/38/26/013zbMATH Open1075.81028arXivquant-ph/0412050OpenAlexW2086229466WikidataQ56092550 ScholiaQ56092550MaRDI QIDQ5316100FDOQ5316100

Authors: A. S. Sanz 

Publication date: 12 September 2005

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A quantum fractal is a wavefunction with a real and an imaginary part continuous everywhere, but differentiable nowhere. This lack of differentiability has been used as an argument to deny the general validity of Bohmian mechanics (and other trajectory--based approaches) in providing a complete interpretation of quantum mechanics. Here, this assertion is overcome by means of a formal extension of Bohmian mechanics based on a limiting approach. Within this novel formulation, the particle dynamics is always satisfactorily described by a well defined equation of motion. In particular, in the case of guidance under quantum fractals, the corresponding trajectories will also be fractal.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0412050

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zbMATH Keywords

Bohmian mechanicsfractal wave packets, Schrödinger equationWeierstrass function, quantum fractal

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hausdorff and packing measures (28A78) Fractals (28A80) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Stochastic mechanics (including stochastic electrodynamics) (81P20) Quantum chaos (81Q50) Geometric limits in holomorphic dynamics (37F40)

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